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Percy Edward Newberry Collection File
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Cylinder seal impressions

Notebook housed in an envelope containing cuttings and drawings of cylinder seals and impressions from Abydos, including the tombs of Khasekhemwy and Neterkhet (also known as Djoser). Pages of the notebook have been numbered by Peter Kaplony on 26th November 1959. Notebook also includes loose pages of draft plates for Newberry, P.E., 'Impressions of seals from Abydos', in Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume 2, p.130 with plates xxii-xxv (1909) (OEB 146367).

This notebook was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Scarabs and Cylinders'.

Dale, (Sir) Alfred William Winslow (1855-1921) - correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Alfred William Winslow Dale (1855-1921) (Vice Chancellor, Liverpool University) including on appointment to and resignation from Professorship at the University of Liverpool; and report of Selection Committee which includes details Newberry's career and that of John Garstang up to 1907.

Note:
MSS 11/5 is also numbered 348
MSS 11/6 is also numbered A 240

Davies, Nina de Garis - correspondence

Correspondence from Nina de Garis Davies to Newberry and Mrs Newberry including asking Newberry's advice on camping at Beni Hasan with Rosalind Moss; details of travel and travel plans; cataloguing Newberry's collection of textiles.

Note:
MSS 11/22 is also numbered 18a
MSS 11/23 is also numbered 18
MSS 11/25 is also numbered 257

Davies, Norman de Garis (1865-1941) - correspondence

Correspondence from Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941) including on: excavation at Meryra; arranging for Newberry to bring certain things with him when he visits; trees in the garden of Akhenaten; the tomb of Mentu-her-khepeshef; travel plans to Egypt; shrine at the tomb of Puyemre; identification of Ay; publications; tomb of User; tomb of Rekhmire; dealings with Bayoumi and Droiton; death of Mrs Griffith; news of Steindorff in Germany (1938); World War Two.

Note:
MSS 11/27 is also numbered 19
MSS 11/28 is also numbered 28
MSS 11/29 is also numbered 17
MSS 11/30 is also numbered 44
MSS 11/31 is also numbered 43
MSS 11/32 is also numbered 60
MSS 11/33 is also numbered 56
MSS 11/37 is also numbered 357
MSS 11/38 is also numbered 374
MSS 11/41 is also numbered 260
MSS 11/42 is also numbered 311
MSS 11/55 is also numbered 226
MSS 11/56 is also numbered 201
MSS 11/73 is also numbered A 108

Davis, Theodore M. (1837-1915) - correspondence

Correspondence including: asking Newberry to write a description of a tomb; describing the condition of the tomb; reference to photographs of the tomb. Also includes letter to Carter relating to him painting a coffin and referring to correspondence with Maspero. Also includes invitation sent to Davis to a meeting to observe whether any phenomena takes place on the anniversary of Pharaoh Akhnaton's death in the Valley of the Queens, 26 January 1909.

Note:
MSS 12/4 is also numbered 16
MSS 12/5 is also numbered A.279
MSS 12/6 is also numbered A 280
MSS 12/8 is also numbered 292

Dawson, Warren Royal - correspondence

Correspondence from Warren Royal Dawson including on: situation regarding excavation work in Egypt; translation of hieroglyphs; publications Dawson is working on; references to the tomb of Ay; funerary papyri of the 21st Dynasty; Queen Nozme; 21st dynasty burial sites; Newberry's articles on the Pig and the Olive; discussion of various Egyptologists in relation to biographies Dawson is writing and draft replies from Newberry; requesting collection sale catalogues.

Note:
MSS 12/17 is also numbered 343
MSS 12/18 is also numbered A.199
MSS 12/19 is also numbered 343a

Dedekind, Alexander - correspondence

Note of recommendation from Alexander Dedekind to Carola von Cischini written on a business card in Sütterlinschrift.

Translation by Ann-Katrin Gill, 8th April 2016:
Frau Carola v. Cischini…recommends to you, esteemed dear lady, the one who presents this card to you, Percy E. Newberry, one of our very first Egyptologists from England, who would also like to visit your scarab collection, and who also has ample opportunity to interest purchasers in your collection.

Deforestation, dessication and climate changes in Egypt

Folder titled 'Deforestation : Dessication' containing research notes on deforestation, dessication and climate changes in Egypt.

Includes

  • Notes on the Libyan Desert or Sahara including on deforestation

  • Notes in preparation for a lecture titled 'Taming the land and interpretation of nature'

  • Notes on articles by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

  • Notes on deforestation

  • Notes on the former fertility of Egypt

  • Newspaper cutting on soil erosion in Africa by Elspeth Huxley from The Times, 10 June 1937

  • Notes on the geology of Egypt

  • Typed lecture notes on deforestation, flora and fauna in Egypt

  • Notes on desiccation or drying up of lakes and rivers

  • Typed draft titled 'Deforestation of Mediterranean Lands'

  • Notes on deserts

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